CAPITALISM, SEX, AND MAGIC
A rotating triple-bill of cutting-edge works with 3 renowned international, Canadian, and local artists on the forefront of dance. The final presentation of the Dancemakers 2014-15 Season.
ABOUT CAPITALISM, SEX, AND MAGIC
Shamanism, false economies, and modern spiritual power. Dancemakers presents a queering, kaleidoscopic triple bill of works by internationally renowned and award-winning KEITH HENNESSY Bear/Skin, ground-breaker ANDREW TAY Summoning Aesthetics and local pioneer EROCA NICOLS aka Lady Janitor ...Truthteller.... Presented over 4 days, the works will be performed in different combinations that re-contextualize their themes. Every night will be a unique experience.
ABOUT BEAR/SKIN BY KEITH HENNESSY
Motivated by grand spectacle and ambitious prayer, Keith Hennessys Bear/Skin appropriates Nijinsky's choreography for Le Sacre du Printemps 1913 to consider Modernism's dependence on appropriations of the indigenous, folk, exotic, and oriental, and question ritual and art today. Bear/Skin was named TimeOut New York's 2014 Critics' Pick and "a must see" performance by San Francisco Bay Guardian.
ABOUT SUMMONING AESTHETICS BY ANDREW TAY
What are the actions / images / rituals that call forth the idea of summoning? And if we are to execute these without pretense...What are we summoning into the space around us? What types of spirits / magic / nothingness / can we make happen without knowing what the @#$ we are doing? The performance will be an impossible attempt to render intense rituals and spiritual actions into the superficial and transform pop culture and trivial actions into a sacred practice.
ABOUT ...TRUTHTELLER... BY EROCA NICOLS
...Truthteller... is a solo work by Lady Janitor featuring: feats of fear facing and concentration, questions and answers, calling on and calling out the past, present and future, blood, water, conversation, aqua-technics, results of a sojourn of spiritual seekery, live lifelong lasting body alteration, sweating, movement and yes, truthtelling.
DATES & TIMES
Wed, MAY 6 8 pm
...Truthteller... by Eroca Nicols aka Lady Janitor &
Summoning Aesthetics by Andrew Tay
Thu, MAY 7 8 pm
Summoning Aesthetics by Andrew Tay &
Bear/Skin by Keith Hennessy
Fri, MAY 8 8 pm
Bear/Skin by Keith Hennessy &
...Truthteller... by Eroca Nicols aka Lady Janitor
Sat, MAY 9 3 pm
...Truthteller... by Eroca Nicols aka Lady Janitor &
Summoning Aesthetics by Andrew Tay
Sat, MAY 9 8 pm
Bear/Skin by Keith Hennessy
VENUE
Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Distillery District, 9 Trinity Street, Main Stage 313
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
416-367-1800 dancemakers.org/directions
TICKETS
$26 / $21 Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/1EUsl0p
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ABOUT DANCEMAKERS
We fully embrace Dancemakers as a centre a centre for creating, a centre for artists, a centre for everyone. The curatorial practice we propose is about people, about making space for multiple perspectives and systems of thought. Our vision for Dancemakers as a centre means that we must undertake this act of centring towards people as individuals.